Artemon () was a Spartan engineer who built the military engines for Pericles in his war against Samos in 441 BCE.Plutarch, Pericles 27Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 12.28Scholiast on Aristophanes's The Acharnians 802
There was a celebrated statue of this Artemon made by Polycletus.Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.19.2
The writer Servius the Grammarian in his commentaries on Virgil's Aeneid confuses this Artemon with the writer Artemon of Clazomenae. This confusion persists to the present day, and many writers will still call him "Artemon of Clazomenae".
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